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the carolina watchman salisbury n c jahtjaky 22 1s85 ai ytfi--thirb series nolif ubebjbvs , jfspiic wire â– , permanent cure * fob nupepsia and indigestion , â– - wmv gregory s i â€¢ , n c nov 29 1884 ..â€¢ y ii.-mv : i hereby certify i-ntly used your dyspeptic ,. v great beuefit to myself recommend it t others k l vvauing member n c legislature i li.utl ( â€¢ grezorv : i ' "â– " g reat p leabure , to tin value f>1 . v "" r ,,),â€¢. i'liave used it with great fully recommend it to any one p ( , . ii ligertion and a of liver ami bowe's d a jenkins n c stale treasurer ,\] me a den and t 0 smith & i .. and j ii kuni-.-s salis 4(j:!v â– tobacco seed mffi k of select vari ' ; nkw and pedigree â– o every type to choose â– guaranteed and prices price list free i k v.i and ilyco^va headquarters for i baker am tennessee ! farm wagons . - vvatertow n & cincinnati baggies & spring wagons i!i kford & huffman grain and guano drills nemos hay rakes \\ eki - hiding and walking cultivators thomas 1 harrows telegraph straw cutters ind dixie plows dextor con'ia sliollors engines and boilers saw and grist mills and boil or fittings gun idjjes wads and caps â– dj namite fuse and pri s-.a.i â– md spades building i oils and varnishes home-raised clover seed j else usually k.ipi in first class j stores - i liav i hand ibove & offer them i>>r hi next w monej uian they have e er untrj . . w smithdeal piedmont wagons ssshor cash or on time â– â€¢â€¢ â– â– purchxsers we have made lebrated wagons eltl - so ill who need wagons . â– â– â– u d t john a isi'ylikn agent or j o white a the best smith in 4 the county ! p ired to rto all kind of re â– itohi s clocks c.,and at â– incl â– ,'<â– ! your watches al - iltsburj : and trj lue k i l!,.(iun tilj winter millinery i to continue the mil at my old stand i a>k my - to hold thei orders redtheprtttiertlotof ribbons feathers silks flowers c everything will n'kw vnd fashionable mrs w r barker â– ' l <; 12 1884 2:lro a pr 1 7 Â£ ll scents : ir postage and 1 ifcc wily box oi goods â– . iu tomore mon .-â– ui this world all - 1 iir the broad . workers absoluu - k o augusta maine noticet ' thi pn seni gene 1 arollna to amend the - usbury.n.c bj dlrec â– imisrfonere â– " ! n kamsay mayor gt u^uian tfegetabur'ills .. i â– â– imf i ial1 bilious complaints â€¢ ; 'â– â– : oÂ«r.p a l>1 msi national sermon based on tlic iijjd chapter of matthew reported for the raleigh register woe unto yon scribes and pharisees hypocrites for ye pay titlie of mint and anise and cummin and have omitted the weightier matters of the law judgment mercy and faith the tithing system was practiced amongst the jews from early times it was a part of their ecclesiastical econo my and was made binding upon them by this tithe system the priests and all who served in holy things about the temple and the sanctuary were amply provided for so that they should serve only in holy things during the ages through which the jews preserved their distinctive nationality there were occa sional departures from the original pur pose iod had in ordering that system those departures were the result of the corruption of their civil rulers and their ; ecclesiastics the civil authorities laid i claim to a share of the tax levies and collections so the officers of state and the officers of the church readily wink i ed at infractions of the tithe law by rabbinical glosses and by a very liberal ; construction of the law they added to the tithe schedule the articles mention ed in the text this statement is sus tained by the highest jewish authority the talmud says the tithing of corn i from the law : the tithing of herbs from the rabbis it is a noteworthy fact my friends that in all cases of in f rat ion of law the guilty parties the interpolators and liberal construction ists of the constitution and laws are always extremely zealous about the new and doubtful phases of law and never fail to exercise great rigor in the en forcement of the new order of things this was eminently true of the scribes and pharisees in the days of our lord they wen sticklers about the tithe on mint and anise and cummin but disre garded the weightier matters of the law the pretended much personal god liness and great love and reverence for the law and yet under the guise of hypocrisy they were stern and relent less in having the tithe on mint and anise and cummin collected for this purpose they quartered a very ar my of publicans upon the people publicans who invaded the sanctity of the home altar with their unholy pres ence xor is this all the publicans knowing that they acted under false authority under authority not derived from the fundamental law felt them selves irresponsible in a great measure and consequently they added to the op pression of the people by levying and collecting fraudulent taxes by which to enrich themselves so you see my friends the whole administration was wrong from the sanhedrim down it was false in fact false in spirit and false in the execution of it it was a ring service from which god was in fact excluded and money was held to be the chief good the scribes and pharisees had no doubt a twofold object in that rigorous gathering of the tithes it helped to swell the funds of the national treasu ry of which they had control it also filled their own larders with great abun dance nor did it matter with them that the poor laborers who produced these luxuries of life were in destitution and want little did they sympathize with the sad wailings of widowhood and orphanage so they had ample means for living in wantonness and excess is it any wonder then that our lord should array before them their sins of oppres sion their repudiation in every practi cal sense of the weightier matters of the law â€” and while holding up before them the hide usness of their hypocri sy sin uld utter the most terrible male dictions against them in reviewing this whole transaction there is one lesson my friends present ed for our consideration which we should learn well it is this that the scribes and pharisees were both reli gious and political hypocrites and we are taught in this case that god does not tolerate political hypocrisy and dis honesty any more than he does religious hypocrisy the sequal shows this for god not only brought to an end the jewish church and the jewish religion but swept away their national govern ment at the same time our lord also arraigned them for omitting the weightier matters of the law justice mercy and faith in their rage after the tithes and by disuse they had broken down all the force of the legal tribunals of the government so that crime went unwhipt of justice rapine and murder theft and robbery malfeasance in office perjury and bribe ry treachery in matters of public trust and conspiracy to defraud the public the use of official authority to shield criminals from the penalties of the law and the use of the official position for purposes of peculation and personal gain stalked with defiant head from one end of the streets to the other and from gate to gate of the great city of jeru salem it availed nothing with the scribes and pharisees that a cry for re lief went up from all the borders of ju dea they had abondoned all practical piety called in the text mercy ). they had withdrawn all trust in god for their national perpetuity called here faith ). they had reached the point of despara tion and were resolved to hold on to place and power by all means fair or foul they had drifted into a stereo typed religion and an abnormal morali ty which they were resolved to risk in the final emergency the end came and judea's sun went down to rise no ! more it went down as the master had j said and the destroying angel fixed his seal upon it how like the administration of the scribes and pharisees has been the ad ministration of our own national affairs for the last twenty years there have been repeated infractions of our funda 1 mental law especially in regard to tax ation no one objects to such taxation as is necessary to meet the honest and reasonable demands of the government with this however the ruling dynasty has not been satisfied they have plan ned and clamored for more that they might swell into large proportions the national funds to ik used for corrupt purj loses they have therefore tithed mint and anise and cummin that they i might favor monopolies and create a moneyed oligarchy upon whose power j they have relied for continuing their i hold upon the government for an indef inite period internal taxation has been j a prime feature in this scheme for con verting this elective government into a pseudo monarchy the revenue from this source has amounted to large sums much of this fund has never reached the national treasury but has been used to corrupt the fountains of justice a large share of it has gone into the hands of an army of menials who have all along been the slaves of this moneyed oligarchy as the price of their slave ry they have been ordered and required to intimidate freemen in the exercise of vested rights to seize ballot boxes and bribe witnesses to change their contents and thereby destroyed the virtue of our boasted franchise and to put voters up on the shamble as so marly sheep for the market think not my friends that i talk too much about money in my sermons as it was in pharisaic times so it is now taxation money has usurped the place of patriotism and constitu tional law it has displaced public vir tue and proposes to wield the destinies of a free people by its corrupting pow er not satisfied with internal taxa tion with its deep and damning con sequences the modern scribes and pharisees who have so long controlled our natiodal affairs have fixed upon us a system of tariff taxation by which they hoped to continue their grasp up on the national throat indeed they have apparently acted upon the as sumption that money is power and the whole administration of govern ment by them is an acknowledgement that by this we rule 1 the tariff sys tem ban vielded immense profits to a few manufacturers and at the same time has impoverished the laborer and consumer these same monopolists with their great fortunes join in with presidents and cabinets with suborn ed judges and juries with the thieves ar.d robbers who hang around the na tional treasury and with venal aspi rants for high official stations to cor rupt the elective franchise and defeat the popular will our recent elections have shown how confidently money was relied upon to elect a chief magis trate of the nation calculations were made and speculations indulged in as to how many votes a given sum of money would purchase with as little moral concern as would a stock dealer feel as to the number of beef cattle he could purchase for a given amount of money these calculations accompa nied with the demand of a presidential candidate were presented to monopo lists who were asked to meet the de mand and the money was advanced well my friends there is one lesson in this transaction by which we may profit we have learned the states in which they live and the people who are base enough to sell their votes as also the aspirants who were so morally de graded as to seek office through such means and who were willing to take the oath of induction into an office procured by such methods ye hypo crites ye generation of vipers 1 the omission of the weightier mat ters of the law by the scribes and pharisees was a legitimate corollary from well defined premises the legiti mate effect of a given cause as it was in the time of the pharisees so it is in our times it is not to be expect ed of corrupt magistrates chief or otherwise that they should punish criminals it cannot be hoped that corrupt rulers who have corrupted oth ers for the sake of office should punish dishonest subordinates having per jured themselves it is not likely that they would enforce the law against perjury having bribed others tor a money consideration or otherwise the statutes against bribery becomes a dead letter in their hands having forced money by taxation with which to cor rupt the masses it is not suppossable that they would punish theft and cor ruption in their menials indeed my friends the rulers who have set aside the obligations which bind man to his fellowman â€” who have ignored honor and virtue and those traits of manli ness and integrity which exalt human character have never been known from the days of the pharisees to the present to administer government in justice mercy and faith â€” have never strengthened and confirmed men in obe dience to law and ordt-r venality in public rulers around whom the venal â€¢ always swarm have from the earliest ! times bred national weakness and de cay such was the result with the scribes and pharisees and god ended the struggle by blotting out their capi tal city and the nation likewise there is something very significant in the way our lord puts the question they had omitted the weightier mat ters of the law in their rage after tithe of mint and anise and cummin combined with their odious hypocrisy they neglected to bring criminals to justice to do so would have been virtually self-condemnation in like manner it has been with us men who go into the market to purchase office by purchasing votes can never be trusted to administer honest govern ment just so sure as they become puuic magistrates they will omit the weightier matters of the law such has been our unfortunate condition for a number of years and the tendency has been to anarchy to unsettle honest business to increase the power of mon ey changers to convert the temple of liberty into a den of thieves to clothe the merciless and heartless with au thority to lord it over the helpless and innocent and to the development of that extravagance and luxury which affect chastity and purity and have at all times been the precursor of the de cay and downfall of republics there is much in all this my friends for serious thought and to awaken the american people to a sense of the most terrible danger and let the in coming dynasty bear in mind that as the inexorable maledictions of the al mighty rest upon the corruptions and hypocrisies of the past they will find no immunity in like conditions far god is king of all the earthy washington letter from our regular correspondent washington d c jan 10 1885 the inter-state commerce bill lias been passed in the house after a lon<j and able debate mr regan the au thor and tireless advocate of the bill may well congratulate himself on this achievement last session he was at death's door with an insidious disease and no one believed that he would live to see the triumph of his bill he then said that he would be will ing to die but for the incompletness of this work there are few more powerful more ready or better equip ped debaters in the present congress than mr reagan of texas the beginning of the new year has been characterized by a resumption of the social entertainments of the season but there is a lack of the splendor the gayety the chic of former yeais the hard times may have something to do with the social depression bui hard times do not pinch office holders whose salaries are as certain as taxa tion the causes of depression are multiplex it takes money to make the social machine go and many of the social engineers lost their money in wagers on blaine then again they realize that it is prudent to be provident and save money to buy tickets to ohio after the 4th of march col lamont has been in this city for two days looking over the field very few knew that he was the pri vate secretary of the president-elect and he was not annoyed by office seekers and interviewers pie went to the white house yesterday after noon and m^t president arthur who introduced him to his private secretary who in turn presented the clerks about the throne and explained lo him briefly the daily routine of official work at the presidential mansion last night the chairman of the in auguration committee had a long talk with col lamont who remarked that governor cleveland was averse to show and ostentation but that on the other hand he did not wish to appear osten tatiously simple or austere the de tails of the inauguration will therefore be left entirely to the committee left to the committee the inaugu ration promises to be a grand affair with a grand march to the capitol in the foienton a grand pyrotechnical display in the evening and a grand ball at night think of a ball room of capacity lor twelve thousand per so s and with floor sufficiently spa cio is for two hundred and fifty cotill ion < dancing in tune at night penn sylvmia avenue will be as li^ht as i day with gas electricity and calcium lights a firm has offered to decorate the st eets by suspending a line wire from the navy department to the foot of the capitol and suspend globes of different colors twenty four inches apart the same line passing up lou isiana avenueand around the city hali to the pension building it is the intention of the committee to make on the occasion the grainiest display of pyrotechnics and decoratians that has ever been seen in america and from the estimates received there is no doubt whatever that it will be done the military parade will be the lar gest that has been seen in washington since the war general fitz lee will appear at the head of eighteen hun dred men from virginia and north carolina all the southern states will be represented in the procession two colored military companies one from norfolk and the other froir bal timore will be in line with the color ed companies of this city some of the troops will sleep in the pullman cars which bring them here others will be billeted in hotels and halls where they have already engaged quarters a few companies will be quartered in alexandria where they will be within half an hour of wasli ingson by rail or boat if the pro verbial inauguration weather prevails on the fourth of march the military will have a taste of the horrors of war the last three inauguration days were extremely disagreeable congress ought to pass an act extending the term of a president to six years and inangurating him on the fourth of july then the military companies could have a picnic and see washington ar rayed in green sward foliage foun tains and flowers contempt contempt is the meanest and small est thing in the world because it keeps the heart in which it reigns from ever growing or learning because it never ! looks up to see anything above it and sees only what is lowest in things be ueath it and to the truly noble the attitude of the contemptuous heart is a mean stooping which lowers its pos sessor below the lowest of those he would despise there is always some thing in every one to honor if we could find it out but contempt passes by all that could be honored to look at that which is lowest contempt and envy are often only the outside and inside of the same moral weakness such people profess to despise what they inwardly envy the raleigh lawyers have called a convention of the lawyers of north carolina to meet in this city o:i the 28th inst the intent is to con sider the defects of the existing judicia ry system stands at the head tiik ligiit-runxixg domestic that it is the acknowledged leader is a fact that cannot be disputed many imitate it none equal it the largest armed the lightest running the most beautiful wood work a yd is warranted to be made of the best material to do any and all kinds of work to lie complete in every respect agents wanted in unoccupied territory address domestic sewing machine co richmond va for sale by kluttz & rendleman 84 â€” 36:ly salisbury n c t _ 1 â€ž for working people sond 10 cents po:st m n h ll k fl . and we will mail you free a royal ii valuable sample box ol f r ooits that win llulljp'it you in the way of making more mon ey 1 a few days than you ever thought possible at any business capital not require voucan live at home and work in spare time only or all the time all of boiu sox of all ages grandly successful 50 cts to 5 easily earned every evening that all who want work m iv test the business we make this un paralleled offer to all who are not well satisfied we will send 1 to pay for the trouble of writing us firtl particulars direct ions etc sent free immense p.iy absolutely sure for all who start at once don't delay address stixson & co portland maine nov 27 s4 ly hardware when you wants hardware at low figures call on the undersigned at no 2 granite row d a atwell agaat for th2 cardwellthresher salisbury n c june 8th tf real estate ha a xj xo * in pursuance of an order of tlie super^r court of rovan county the undersigned coi ml.sloner will sell at public sale at the court-hou&e iu sails burs on monday the 2d day ol february i^5 a lot ot land containing i \ acrrs known as tbe bur rouffhs lot situated on the western k c kailroud at third creek station in kowan county terms cash j Â». horah dec 15 1834 Â« commissioner ask your druggist what he ! knows about the merit of sliriner indian vermifuge the poplar remedy arrived & arriving full from top to bottom never so many goods in one store before in salisbury stock full & co31plete ii iii hie lip url zo it 7^/t or wawy j/wvigrs ever fte/bre known jlll the latest styles bf to|iclj arc just lobtlg anil arc selling nitelg la laiie anil cjimx wraps are sbon all tlie new tknukhl russian circulars new markets cloaks havelocks c very nice anb neat are these goods jerseys jerseys jerseys carpets ~ we have them in all gjades kiixls and prices and more than anj four btores combined over b.fore bad it one time in our town tliuy are very attractive and cheap ruqs mats and oil cloths m m m "^ gents furnishing goods in large variety and very cheap we sell the best shiht made there un'tk an better as there is nothiug better to make them out 1 f than is used in ours they art neatly well made and strong clothing clothing ! ix all till new cuts and styles out this season men youths ana boys and ue hare the largest nnd best assortment at the low prices to be found in our city ,â– . c n ti , â™¦,>,. n t lc vlso we are large buyers r we buy more co^on than all the town besiue . v . o 3 kinds ef country produce 5^-it helf yoa l " s 11 wel1 * ben - vou buy wh re : ' ' "'' " j d ga8kiit

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the carolina watchman salisbury n c jahtjaky 22 1s85 ai ytfi--thirb series nolif ubebjbvs , jfspiic wire â– , permanent cure * fob nupepsia and indigestion , â– - wmv gregory s i â€¢ , n c nov 29 1884 ..â€¢ y ii.-mv : i hereby certify i-ntly used your dyspeptic ,. v great beuefit to myself recommend it t others k l vvauing member n c legislature i li.utl ( â€¢ grezorv : i ' "â– " g reat p leabure , to tin value f>1 . v "" r ,,),â€¢. i'liave used it with great fully recommend it to any one p ( , . ii ligertion and a of liver ami bowe's d a jenkins n c stale treasurer ,\] me a den and t 0 smith & i .. and j ii kuni-.-s salis 4(j:!v â– tobacco seed mffi k of select vari ' ; nkw and pedigree â– o every type to choose â– guaranteed and prices price list free i k v.i and ilyco^va headquarters for i baker am tennessee ! farm wagons . - vvatertow n & cincinnati baggies & spring wagons i!i kford & huffman grain and guano drills nemos hay rakes \\ eki - hiding and walking cultivators thomas 1 harrows telegraph straw cutters ind dixie plows dextor con'ia sliollors engines and boilers saw and grist mills and boil or fittings gun idjjes wads and caps â– dj namite fuse and pri s-.a.i â– md spades building i oils and varnishes home-raised clover seed j else usually k.ipi in first class j stores - i liav i hand ibove & offer them i>>r hi next w monej uian they have e er untrj . . w smithdeal piedmont wagons ssshor cash or on time â– â€¢â€¢ â– â– purchxsers we have made lebrated wagons eltl - so ill who need wagons . â– â– â– u d t john a isi'ylikn agent or j o white a the best smith in 4 the county ! p ired to rto all kind of re â– itohi s clocks c.,and at â– incl â– ,'k my - to hold thei orders redtheprtttiertlotof ribbons feathers silks flowers c everything will n'kw vnd fashionable mrs w r barker â– ' l 1 msi national sermon based on tlic iijjd chapter of matthew reported for the raleigh register woe unto yon scribes and pharisees hypocrites for ye pay titlie of mint and anise and cummin and have omitted the weightier matters of the law judgment mercy and faith the tithing system was practiced amongst the jews from early times it was a part of their ecclesiastical econo my and was made binding upon them by this tithe system the priests and all who served in holy things about the temple and the sanctuary were amply provided for so that they should serve only in holy things during the ages through which the jews preserved their distinctive nationality there were occa sional departures from the original pur pose iod had in ordering that system those departures were the result of the corruption of their civil rulers and their ; ecclesiastics the civil authorities laid i claim to a share of the tax levies and collections so the officers of state and the officers of the church readily wink i ed at infractions of the tithe law by rabbinical glosses and by a very liberal ; construction of the law they added to the tithe schedule the articles mention ed in the text this statement is sus tained by the highest jewish authority the talmud says the tithing of corn i from the law : the tithing of herbs from the rabbis it is a noteworthy fact my friends that in all cases of in f rat ion of law the guilty parties the interpolators and liberal construction ists of the constitution and laws are always extremely zealous about the new and doubtful phases of law and never fail to exercise great rigor in the en forcement of the new order of things this was eminently true of the scribes and pharisees in the days of our lord they wen sticklers about the tithe on mint and anise and cummin but disre garded the weightier matters of the law the pretended much personal god liness and great love and reverence for the law and yet under the guise of hypocrisy they were stern and relent less in having the tithe on mint and anise and cummin collected for this purpose they quartered a very ar my of publicans upon the people publicans who invaded the sanctity of the home altar with their unholy pres ence xor is this all the publicans knowing that they acted under false authority under authority not derived from the fundamental law felt them selves irresponsible in a great measure and consequently they added to the op pression of the people by levying and collecting fraudulent taxes by which to enrich themselves so you see my friends the whole administration was wrong from the sanhedrim down it was false in fact false in spirit and false in the execution of it it was a ring service from which god was in fact excluded and money was held to be the chief good the scribes and pharisees had no doubt a twofold object in that rigorous gathering of the tithes it helped to swell the funds of the national treasu ry of which they had control it also filled their own larders with great abun dance nor did it matter with them that the poor laborers who produced these luxuries of life were in destitution and want little did they sympathize with the sad wailings of widowhood and orphanage so they had ample means for living in wantonness and excess is it any wonder then that our lord should array before them their sins of oppres sion their repudiation in every practi cal sense of the weightier matters of the law â€” and while holding up before them the hide usness of their hypocri sy sin uld utter the most terrible male dictions against them in reviewing this whole transaction there is one lesson my friends present ed for our consideration which we should learn well it is this that the scribes and pharisees were both reli gious and political hypocrites and we are taught in this case that god does not tolerate political hypocrisy and dis honesty any more than he does religious hypocrisy the sequal shows this for god not only brought to an end the jewish church and the jewish religion but swept away their national govern ment at the same time our lord also arraigned them for omitting the weightier matters of the law justice mercy and faith in their rage after the tithes and by disuse they had broken down all the force of the legal tribunals of the government so that crime went unwhipt of justice rapine and murder theft and robbery malfeasance in office perjury and bribe ry treachery in matters of public trust and conspiracy to defraud the public the use of official authority to shield criminals from the penalties of the law and the use of the official position for purposes of peculation and personal gain stalked with defiant head from one end of the streets to the other and from gate to gate of the great city of jeru salem it availed nothing with the scribes and pharisees that a cry for re lief went up from all the borders of ju dea they had abondoned all practical piety called in the text mercy ). they had withdrawn all trust in god for their national perpetuity called here faith ). they had reached the point of despara tion and were resolved to hold on to place and power by all means fair or foul they had drifted into a stereo typed religion and an abnormal morali ty which they were resolved to risk in the final emergency the end came and judea's sun went down to rise no ! more it went down as the master had j said and the destroying angel fixed his seal upon it how like the administration of the scribes and pharisees has been the ad ministration of our own national affairs for the last twenty years there have been repeated infractions of our funda 1 mental law especially in regard to tax ation no one objects to such taxation as is necessary to meet the honest and reasonable demands of the government with this however the ruling dynasty has not been satisfied they have plan ned and clamored for more that they might swell into large proportions the national funds to ik used for corrupt purj loses they have therefore tithed mint and anise and cummin that they i might favor monopolies and create a moneyed oligarchy upon whose power j they have relied for continuing their i hold upon the government for an indef inite period internal taxation has been j a prime feature in this scheme for con verting this elective government into a pseudo monarchy the revenue from this source has amounted to large sums much of this fund has never reached the national treasury but has been used to corrupt the fountains of justice a large share of it has gone into the hands of an army of menials who have all along been the slaves of this moneyed oligarchy as the price of their slave ry they have been ordered and required to intimidate freemen in the exercise of vested rights to seize ballot boxes and bribe witnesses to change their contents and thereby destroyed the virtue of our boasted franchise and to put voters up on the shamble as so marly sheep for the market think not my friends that i talk too much about money in my sermons as it was in pharisaic times so it is now taxation money has usurped the place of patriotism and constitu tional law it has displaced public vir tue and proposes to wield the destinies of a free people by its corrupting pow er not satisfied with internal taxa tion with its deep and damning con sequences the modern scribes and pharisees who have so long controlled our natiodal affairs have fixed upon us a system of tariff taxation by which they hoped to continue their grasp up on the national throat indeed they have apparently acted upon the as sumption that money is power and the whole administration of govern ment by them is an acknowledgement that by this we rule 1 the tariff sys tem ban vielded immense profits to a few manufacturers and at the same time has impoverished the laborer and consumer these same monopolists with their great fortunes join in with presidents and cabinets with suborn ed judges and juries with the thieves ar.d robbers who hang around the na tional treasury and with venal aspi rants for high official stations to cor rupt the elective franchise and defeat the popular will our recent elections have shown how confidently money was relied upon to elect a chief magis trate of the nation calculations were made and speculations indulged in as to how many votes a given sum of money would purchase with as little moral concern as would a stock dealer feel as to the number of beef cattle he could purchase for a given amount of money these calculations accompa nied with the demand of a presidential candidate were presented to monopo lists who were asked to meet the de mand and the money was advanced well my friends there is one lesson in this transaction by which we may profit we have learned the states in which they live and the people who are base enough to sell their votes as also the aspirants who were so morally de graded as to seek office through such means and who were willing to take the oath of induction into an office procured by such methods ye hypo crites ye generation of vipers 1 the omission of the weightier mat ters of the law by the scribes and pharisees was a legitimate corollary from well defined premises the legiti mate effect of a given cause as it was in the time of the pharisees so it is in our times it is not to be expect ed of corrupt magistrates chief or otherwise that they should punish criminals it cannot be hoped that corrupt rulers who have corrupted oth ers for the sake of office should punish dishonest subordinates having per jured themselves it is not likely that they would enforce the law against perjury having bribed others tor a money consideration or otherwise the statutes against bribery becomes a dead letter in their hands having forced money by taxation with which to cor rupt the masses it is not suppossable that they would punish theft and cor ruption in their menials indeed my friends the rulers who have set aside the obligations which bind man to his fellowman â€” who have ignored honor and virtue and those traits of manli ness and integrity which exalt human character have never been known from the days of the pharisees to the present to administer government in justice mercy and faith â€” have never strengthened and confirmed men in obe dience to law and ordt-r venality in public rulers around whom the venal â€¢ always swarm have from the earliest ! times bred national weakness and de cay such was the result with the scribes and pharisees and god ended the struggle by blotting out their capi tal city and the nation likewise there is something very significant in the way our lord puts the question they had omitted the weightier mat ters of the law in their rage after tithe of mint and anise and cummin combined with their odious hypocrisy they neglected to bring criminals to justice to do so would have been virtually self-condemnation in like manner it has been with us men who go into the market to purchase office by purchasing votes can never be trusted to administer honest govern ment just so sure as they become puuic magistrates they will omit the weightier matters of the law such has been our unfortunate condition for a number of years and the tendency has been to anarchy to unsettle honest business to increase the power of mon ey changers to convert the temple of liberty into a den of thieves to clothe the merciless and heartless with au thority to lord it over the helpless and innocent and to the development of that extravagance and luxury which affect chastity and purity and have at all times been the precursor of the de cay and downfall of republics there is much in all this my friends for serious thought and to awaken the american people to a sense of the most terrible danger and let the in coming dynasty bear in mind that as the inexorable maledictions of the al mighty rest upon the corruptions and hypocrisies of the past they will find no immunity in like conditions far god is king of all the earthy washington letter from our regular correspondent washington d c jan 10 1885 the inter-state commerce bill lias been passed in the house after a lon,. n t lc vlso we are large buyers r we buy more co^on than all the town besiue . v . o 3 kinds ef country produce 5^-it helf yoa l " s 11 wel1 * ben - vou buy wh re : ' ' "'' " j d ga8kiit